There has been an overall increase in the number of people living within the city limits of Lima throughout the time frame displayed. The population in the Peruvian capital growth has been steady since 2020, surpassing the 10 million inhabitants during 2022 and leading to reach its highest peak in 2024 with 10.29 million people. The metropolitan area of Lima also ranked as one of the most populous in Latin America. A crucial part of Peru's economic output The total GDP of Lima reached around 246 billion Peruvian soles, which represents almost half of the total economic output of the country. The industry that contributed the most to Lima's GDP was by far services; nonetheless, the importance of manufacturing makes it the second-largest contributor. Other sectors that are important for the nation, like mining and some agricultural activities, stayed at the bottom part of the list.

Unemployment and poverty The unemployment rate of the Peruvian capital exceeded the 7.5 percent mark during March 2024. While the figure appears as quite an improvement over 2020 and 2021 data, when it reached over 16 percent, it still hasn't fully recovered to the figures before the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, the poverty rate presented a growing trend from 2017 to 2023, reaching 9.5 percent of Lima's residents living under the poverty line.

Peru Census Population: Urban: Lima data was reported at 9,324,796.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 8,216,143.000 Person for 2007. Peru Census Population: Urban: Lima data is updated yearly, averaging 4,542,911.000 Person from Jun 1940 (Median) to 2017, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9,324,796.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 630,173.000 Person in 1940. Peru Census Population: Urban: Lima data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Informatics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Peru – Table PE.G003: Population: Census by Department.

Peru Census Population: Lima data was reported at 9,485,405.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 8,445,211.000 Person for 2007. Peru Census Population: Lima data is updated yearly, averaging 4,745,877.000 Person from Jun 1940 (Median) to 2017, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9,485,405.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 828,298.000 Person in 1940. Peru Census Population: Lima data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Informatics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Peru – Table PE.G003: Population: Census by Department.

In 1800, the region of present-day Peru had a population of approximately 1.3 million people. Growth was slow at the beginning of the 19 th century. However, following Peru’s breakaway from the Spanish empire in 1824, the population would begin to slowly increase, and would nearly triple by the turn of the 20th century to approximately 3.7 million. This growth would expand exponentially in the mid-1900s, particularly during the global baby boom in the 1950s and 1960s, as an increase in fertility combined with decreases in child mortality led to rapid growth of the increasingly urbanizing population. This growth would slow somewhat between 1995 and 2013, a slowdown in part attributed to a large-scale expansion of family planning services in the country. However, the last decade has seen an increase in the rate of population growth in Peru, as the country has been one of the main destinations for Venezuelan refugees; with over 600,000 refugees residing in the country as of 2019. As a result, by 2020, almost 33 million people are estimated to live in the country.

Historical dataset of population level and growth rate for the Lima, Peru metro area from 1950 to 2025.

In 2023, the total population of Peru amounted to approximately 34.35 million. The number of women who lived in Peru exceeded the number of men in approximately 340,000. Population figures in this South American country show a maintained upward trend at least since 2008.

1,81 (%) in 2012.

47.30 (%) in 2012.

Peru Census Population: Rural: Lima: Departamento data was reported at 153,421.000 Person in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 219,251.000 Person for 2007. Peru Census Population: Rural: Lima: Departamento data is updated yearly, averaging 183,302.000 Person from Jun 1940 (Median) to 2017, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 225,133.000 Person in 1961 and a record low of 153,421.000 Person in 2017. Peru Census Population: Rural: Lima: Departamento data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Informatics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Peru – Table PE.G003: Population: Census by Department.

Birds in the cities are usually one of the first ways people get in contact with nature. Birds are vertebrates that sometimes are very diverse in urban areas; monitoring them offers opportunities for education and scientific research. Capture and recapture of birds give important information on morphology and if it is done on a long-term basis with a census, on population dynamics. Here I present a dataset of birds that were counted by sight and also captured, banded and released with mist-nets through a monitoring program in an urban area of the city of Lima, Peru; from 1995 until 2010. It also includes records of re-sightings of banded individuals. The censuses were each week and the captures every month, most of the time. The study area had 0.5 Ha and was a private park that had exotic vegetation in different forms: pastures, shrubs, and trees. The data shows the bird censuses, captured individuals and banded individuals resighted. The presence of captured individuals is shown by band number (not all individuals and species were banded or measured), body condition and measurements. The body condition recorded were sex, molt and breeding status. The body measurements were weight, wing, tarsus, beak (total and exposed culmen) and tail. The sampling effort for the bird census was 296 days; half an hour per day. For the bird-banding was 4724.74 Hours-net, with a range of 4 to 107 Hours-net per month. The resighted individuals were 1438. I recorded 43 species in this park, the most common species sighted were Columbina cruziana, Zenaida meloda and Coereba flaveola. There were 1827 captures of 25 bird species, from 12 families, within the order Passeriformes, Columbiformes, Apodiformes, Psittaciformes, and Falconiformes. Individual records per species range between 1 to 395, the median was 16 individuals per species. Most of the birds that were captured were Coereba flaveola (21.6%), Passer domesticus (17.4%) and Volatinia jacarina (12.1%). The longest life spans recorded during this project were individuals of Volatinia jacarina (10Y,7M), Pyrocephalus rubinus (10Y,4M) and Coereba flaveola (9Y,7M). I expect this database to be helpful for researchers in population ecology and bird morphology.

The second most common type of health insurance among workers in Lima, Peru was EsSalud, a social health insurance. The number of employed population affiliated to EsSalud amounted to about *** million between November 2022 and January 2023. Approximately *** million employees in Peru did not have any type of health insurance.

Abstract

The Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) in Peru carried out the Encuesta Dirigida a la Población Venezolana que Reside en el País (ENPOVE) survey between the months of November and December 2018 in order to gain a better understanding of the Venezuelan population residing in Peru.

The survey was carried out in the capital cities in the departments of Tumbes, La Libertad, Lima-Callao, Arequipa and Cusco, which together are home to 85% of the Venezuelan population in the country. The purpose of the survey was to provide reliable data on the living conditions of the Venezuelan population residing in Peru, including: demographic and social aspects, immigration status, discrimination, violence, health, employment, education, access to basic services, housing and home equipment.

The information can be used by international organizations, researchers, and public policy makers to formulate actions, policies, plans, programs, and projects to meet the most urgent needs of this group. The World Bank, UNHCR, IOM, UNFPA and UNICEF provided technical and financial support to the survey.

Geographic coverage

Urban area of capital cities of the regions of Tumbes, La Libertad, Arequipa, Cusco, Lima and Callao.

Analysis unit

Household and individual

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The sampling is probabilistic and stratified. The sampling consists of two stages, the primary sampling unit being the block, which is defined as the urban geographic area delimited by roads. The secondary sampling unit is the dwelling with at least one Venezuelan person that exists within a block. For the households that are finally selected, information is obtained from all the individuals.

The sampling frame for the blocks was constructed as follows: i) The addresses of 58,067 Venezuelan people registered in the 2017 Population and Housing Census were identified. ii) The addresses of 10,076 people were available registered in the registry of Venezuelans who applied for the Temporary Permit of Permanence from the National Superintendency of Migration of the Ministry of the Interior. iii) The blocks containing the addresses of the aforementioned information sources were identified using the Geographic Information System. A global framework of 19,074 blocks was built.

The concept of block used in the survey is a physical area delimited by streets, avenues, roads, canals, etc. easily identifiable and can contain one or more homes, parks, vacant lots, sports fields, etc.

The original design of the sample included the construction of three strata based on the number of dwellings with a Venezuelan population found in each block of the sampling frame: 1 to 5, 6 to 10, greater than 10. On the other hand, the population of the city of Lima was divided into 4 zones with the following districts:

North Lima: Los Olivos, San Martn De Porres, Comas, Carabayllo, Independencia, Puente Piedra East Lima: San Juan De Lurigancho, Ate, Santa Anita, El Agustino, San Luis, La Molina, Lurigancho Downtown Lima: La Victoria, Lima, Santiago De Surco, Surquillo, San Miguel, Brea, Barranco, Rmac, Lince Jesus Maria, Magdalena Del Mar, San Borja South Lima: Chorrillos, San Juan De Miraflores, Villa El Salvador, Villa Mara Del Triunfo, Lurn, Pachacamac

The housing framework was built by means of an exhaustive registry of buildings and dwellings in each of the selected blocks, identifying those places, be they dwellings or establishments, that had a population from Venezuela. The concept of housing for the purposes of the survey included private and collective dwellings (hotels, hostels, lodgings, churches and shelters), where the Venezuelan population is found. This concept is different from the one used in the regular INEI household surveys, which only considers private households with a maximum of 5 households. The concept of the household used was: People, whether or not they are related, who share the main meals and attend to their vital needs in common. This concept is different from that used in the INEI household surveys, where the budget is considered.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

This statistic shows the biggest cities in Peru in 2022. In 2022, approximately 11.17 million people lived in Lima, making it the biggest city in Peru.

Peru Population: Rural: Lima data was reported at 192,937.000 Person in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 197,600.000 Person for 2014. Peru Population: Rural: Lima data is updated yearly, averaging 232,857.000 Person from Jun 2000 (Median) to 2015, with 16 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 279,793.000 Person in 2000 and a record low of 192,937.000 Person in 2015. Peru Population: Rural: Lima data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Information Science. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Peru – Table PE.G003: Population: by Region.

Peru Population: Urban: Lima data was reported at 9,645,314.000 Person in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 9,491,411.000 Person for 2014. Peru Population: Urban: Lima data is updated yearly, averaging 8,560,064.000 Person from Jun 2000 (Median) to 2015, with 16 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9,645,314.000 Person in 2015 and a record low of 7,488,080.000 Person in 2000. Peru Population: Urban: Lima data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Information Science. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Peru – Table PE.G003: Population: by Region.

242,70 (Persons per Sq. Km) in 2007.

Peru Census Population: Rural: Lima: Metropolitan data was reported at 7,188.000 Person in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 9,817.000 Person for 2007. Peru Census Population: Rural: Lima: Metropolitan data is updated yearly, averaging 29,799.000 Person from Jun 1940 (Median) to 2017, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 53,641.000 Person in 1961 and a record low of 7,188.000 Person in 2017. Peru Census Population: Rural: Lima: Metropolitan data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Informatics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Peru – Table PE.G003: Population: Census by Department.

Peru Census Population: Rural: Lima data was reported at 160,609.000 Person in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 229,068.000 Person for 2007. Peru Census Population: Rural: Lima data is updated yearly, averaging 207,488.000 Person from Jun 1940 (Median) to 2017, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 278,774.000 Person in 1961 and a record low of 160,609.000 Person in 2017. Peru Census Population: Rural: Lima data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Informatics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Peru – Table PE.G003: Population: Census by Department.

Between January and March 2024, the average income for women working in Lima, Peru amounted to around 1,658 Peruvian soles per month. In turn, the average monthly income for men stood at 2,249.4 Peruvian soles, about 591 soles more than women.

Average salaries in Lima, Peru According to the employment survey carried out by Peru's National Statistics Institute (INEI, for its acronym in Spanish), the average income of legal workers based in the Peruvian capital does not only vary by gender but also among different age groups and economic sectors. For instance, an employee aged 45 or more can earn around 66 percent more a worker who is up to 24 years old. In turn, service sector workers have higher monthly salaries than employees in manufacture or retail.

Employment in Peru More than half the working population in Peru is considered self-employed, one of the highest shares in Latin America. Even though Peru's unemployment rate has remained below four percent since 2009 (except for 2020 and 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic), the share of people out of employment in Lima was considerably higher than the national average.

21,40 (%) in 2012.